The Permis are an internal exchange currency which enabled the creation of this great learning resource for EcoEconomics.

The Integral PermaCulture Academy (creator of the Permis currency) accepts up to 60% of the costs of its courses in work exchanges that are accounted by in Permis.

We pay in Permis for a variety of support work, administration, or investigation that help improve the services offered by the Academy.

For example editing the e-book, doing translations, helping with conferenes that we offer periodically, improving the classes, supporting other students with additional tutorials, creating more free MiniCourses, etc.

It is with this funding (and lots of additional voluntary work) that these resources have been co-created (like this EcoEconomy wiki) so that everyone can be informed about the most advanced and emerging in sustainability science.

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New Economy Week 2014 Questions

How can we honor and learn from the rich histories of communities building New Economy institutions on the frontlines of fights for racial, economic, environmental justice?

How can we catalyze public conversation about the need for systemic change and the viability of economic alternatives that put people and the planet first?

How can we connect and learn from successful experiments, pilot projects, and campaigns to build broad-based power and effect deep transformation at scale?

How do we transition to a renewable economy without leaving the workers, young people, and communities most impacted by extractive industries behind?

How can we support neighborhoods, cities, towns, and regions as the fertile ground for the kind of economy we need?

About New Economy Week

Our extractive economy is undermining our aspirations for a democratic society. Systemic racial and economic inequality coupled with an addiction to unsustainable growth spell out a future with less opportunity and more vulnerability for our communities. We can choose to accept this fate or we can commit to fighting for an economy that prioritizes life.

New Economy Week, now in its second year, is a public exploration of creative resistance – an opportunity to shine a light on the thousands upon thousands of efforts that everyday people are making right now to bring forth a new kind of economy.

All around us, innovators are engaged in the work of growing cooperative and community-owned enterprises, democratizing and stabilizing finance, finding new ways to share skills and goods, new ways to measure success, and new ways to meet growing human needs on an all too finite planet.

Organizing Team

The 8thLife EcoVillage collective (who are part of the Integral Permaculture Academy group) are passionate holistic managementgeeks, which means they work at increasing the fertility of the soil every day (the REAL banking) with their much loved animal companions.

This means they can't attend conferences about the new economy so they invest the time they would spend travelling to these in creating 'virtual edges' so the greatest number of people can benefit from global meetings of practitioners.